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Hey!

Hope you're good? I currently feel like waffling as per usual,  rather than complete the mountain of work I seem to have. Why why WHY do I want an education eh?! I'll get it done,  don't worry but seen as it's now 6, I should have agessssss (Not. Time seems to go so quick when you need more of it. :( )
Today I feel like chatting about something that I realise makes my day as much as music, exercise or, basically chatting like the crazy chatty person I am. That is Sitcoms.
For me, you can't beat a good British sitcom, with the dry, English humour that I love.
There are millions of wonderful, witty, and emensely clever people out there, all prepared (luckily) to put pen to paper and produce, what may be, absolute brilliance. For me such writers include Richard Curtis and Ben Elton. If you don't know already Curtis is to be applauded for the likes of Blackadder, The Vicar Of Dibley and Love Actually, whilst Elton wrote the extremely witty 'Thin Blue Line' about the antics of the officers in a police station. More Modern writers have to include Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, The Office should be as respected as much as Dickens in my opinion ;), as well as the Wonderful; Craig Cash and Caroline Ahern for gracing us with the genius that is The Royle Family. Although their lesser known work (with credit to Phil Mealey also!) 'Early Doors' is fab - an ace sitcom around the lives of a group of regulars in a working class Manchester pub. Alongside more recent comedies, I'm also a major lover of 70s/80s classics like Porridge, The Good Life and Fawlty Towers. Actor's such a Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale are legends, as is David Jason. Richard Briers, Paul Eddington, Felicity Kendall and Penelope Keith are also wonderful. John Cleese is an obviously great comic writer- both independently and in the Pythons - just watch the "fire alarm" scene in Fawlty Towers to see how the most simple comic devices are sometimes the most effective. Of course credit must also be given to Connie Booth, who helped to co write and it' certainly would not be what it is, without the one and only Andrew Sachs.
I could make endless lists of names of people I find brilliant and it makes me proud of our wonderful writers and actors. For me in comedy, the more subtle the better, and that I think is more common in a British sitcom than any other. Don't get me wrong, I love 'Friends'  as much as the next 'I've watched this episode literally 15 times and pretty much know every word' person, but I'm one of these who loves a bit of 'My family' followed by one of my all time favourites' 'Gavin and Stacey'. (Got to give a shout out to James Corden and Ruth Jones here! Thanks for the laughs! :D)
The brilliance of comedy is that it makes you realise that the average events of day to day chats/experiences are sometimes the funniest things. It's just these subtle things are the things that go unnoticed. If you think about it, that's why we all love Karl Pilkington (and if you don't you should!!) . He's just an average guy, travelling the world giving us his honest opinion. As far as I'm aware it isn't scripted and that's where the beauty lies. Yeah that wonder of the world might be incredibly boring! Really all  he does is say what the majority of us might be thinking :D

Like I say I could write for hours about comedy and I still wouldn't of mentioned all the people I inspire to live like ( ie Rick Mayall and Ade Edmonson in 'The Young Ones', is tempting :D). I've only put a handful on here. When you get chance, I say explore! Watch something you may not have seen before, you may surprise yourself!

Keep smiling!
Molly xx